intro_DFT



Dear CCLers:
 Last week, I had reqested references/textbooks/websites suitable for
 advanced undergraduates on DFT.   I am very grateful to all of you who
 responded--they were all very helpful.  I am posting the replies which I am
 sure would be valuable to a number of us  out there.
 http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~aulbur/dft/bdft1.html
 Hi,
 you could try:
 Density-Functional Theory of Atoms and Molecules by RG Parr and W Yang
 Oxford University Press NY (e.g. 1989)
 It's overall nicely written and quite well explained.
 Bye
 Serge
 Hello Goutam Das,
 one of the articles should be
 Tom Ziegler,
 Approximate Density Functional Theory as a Practical Tool
 in Molecular Energetics and Dynamics,
 Chem. Rev. 91 (1991) 651-667
 Yours sincerely,
 Claudia Stückl
 Dear Goutam,
 the best book from where I managed to get in idea of DFT to tell my
 students is
 W. Koch and M. Holthausen
 A Chemist's Guide to Density Functional Theory.
 Wiley-VCH Wiley & Sons. Weinheim, 2000.
 Leticia
 Hi,
 you can take a look at this web page
 http://www.unc.edu/~shubin/dft.html
 Regards
  Olivier Maresca
  PIIM - CNRS UMR 6633
  Spectrometrie et Dynamique Moleculaire
  Campus Universitaire Saint Jerome
  Service 242
  13397 Marseille Cedex 20 - France
  Tel : +33  4.91.28.27.05
  Fax : +33  4.91.63.65.10
   olivier.maresca -8 at 8- piimsdm.univ-mrs.fr
 I have used the following link as a starting point in my senior level
 class:
 http://www.smps.ntu.edu.au/modules/mod5/index.html
 along with reading from the Wavefunction book, ""A Brief Guide to
 Molecular Mechanics and Quantum Chemical Calculations" (Herhe, et al.)
 Kimberley Cousins
 Associate Professor of Chemistry
 California State University, San Bernardino
 5500 University Parkway
 San Bernardino, CA  92407
 (909)880-5391
 kcousins -8 at 8- csusb.edu
 http://chem.csusb.edu/~kcousins
 Hi Goutam,
     There's a new text by
      Frank Jensen "Introduction to Computational Chemistry"
      which has a chapter on DFT which provides a good basic
      working introduction and compares it to other electronic structure
      methods...Its a handy text.
      Another good reference is Callaway and March (Solid State Physics,
 1984)
      I forget the exact volume number
      Of course, there is a Parr and Yang and Dreizler and Gross which
 provide
      some of the formal definitions.
      I am sure there are many more.
 Regards
   -Niranjan
 You may also want to check the condensed matter physics web pages
 at Cambridge University. There are some nice introductions to plane-waves
 and DFT applied to the solid-state
 Best
 -Niranjan
 Dear Goutam,
 I recommend
 W. Koch and M. C. Holthausen,
 A Chemists's Guide to Density Functional Theory
 Wiley Verlag, Weinheim 2000
 ISBN 3-527-29918-1
 Best regards
 Klaus
 Deae Goutam:
 kochw -8 at 8- vanadium.chem.tu-berlin.de wrote:
 > Hello,
 > Max Holthausen and I wrote a book which appeared in February 2000,
 > which should match your needs:
 >
 > Wolfram Koch and Max C. Holthausen
 > A Chemist's Guide to Density Functional Theory
 > Wiley-VCH, Weinheim (2000)
 > ISBN 3-527-29918-1
 >
 > Hope this helps,
 > Wolfram
 I would like to second this. I had a brief look at the book, and it might
 well be
 very close to what you are looking for.
 Regards, Georg
 Goutam,
 you might find a look at
 http://www.wiley-vch.de/books/tis/eng/3-527-29918-1.html
 interesting.
 Max
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 Hello,
 Max Holthausen and I wrote a book which appeared in February 2000,
 which should match your needs:
 Wolfram Koch and Max C. Holthausen
 A Chemist's Guide to Density Functional Theory
 Wiley-VCH, Weinheim (2000)
 ISBN 3-527-29918-1
 Hope this helps,
 Wolfram
 Hi,
 I saw your question about DFT books.  You might have a glance at
 my page
    http://www.centrcn.umontreal.ca/~casida/compchem.d/DFT.html
 to see if you find anything helpful.  As I say,
   "While not itself an introduction to density-functional theory (DFT),
    this page is intended to provide the information necessary for a novice
    to get started in the complicated world of density functionals."
                          Good luck,
                             Mark
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